FC Barcelona 2–8 FC Bayern Munich

The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League quarter-final match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich was played on 14 August 2020 at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal. Bayern won the match 8–2 on their eventual conquest of the tournament, making it Barcelona's heaviest defeat since 1951, when they lost 6–0 to Alcoyano at the 1950–51 La Liga. It was also the first time they had conceded eight goals in a game since 1946, when they lost 8–0 to Sevilla in the 1946 Copa del Generalísimo.

Barcelona v Bayern Munich (2020)
The Estádio da Luz in Lisbon hosted the match.
Event
Barcelona Bayern Munich
2 8
Date14 August 2020 (2020-08-14)
VenueEstádio da Luz, Lisbon
Man of the MatchThomas Müller (Bayern Munich)[1]
RefereeDamir Skomina (Slovenia)[2]
Attendance0[3][note 1]
WeatherClear night
24 °C (75 °F)
54% humidity[2]

Background
Slovenian referee Damir Skomina officiated the match.

In the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage, Bayern defeated Barca in both matches, en route to Bayern topping Group D while Barcelona finished third and failed to reach the knockout stage. Manchester United was also in the same group stage, drawing all their matches against Bayern and Barca to place second which was sufficient for them to advance. Bayern went on to reach the final hosted by Camp Nou in which they lost to Manchester United, allowing United to accomplish the continental treble.

Bayern and Barca had met in four knockout ties since 2008–09 UEFA Champions League, which yielded 26 goals prior to this game. It is interesting that each time the eventual winner of the Bayern-Barca knockout tie would go on not only to win the UEFA Champions League, but also complete the continental treble, which occurred in 2009, 2013 and 2015. Bayern's Thomas Müller was a reserve in 2009, but started all subsequent Bayern-Barca matches.

Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate in the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. Barca's 4–0 win at Camp Nou in the first leg, with all goals scored in the first half, led Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer to remark "What I saw in the first half is, without doubt, the worst football in Bayern's history". Barca manager Pep Guardiola was sent off in the first leg for protesting a yellow card given to Lionel Messi, and had to watch the second leg from the stands.[4][5][6] This defeat as well as an earlier 5–1 loss in a Bundesliga match eventually led to the sacking of Bayern manager Jürgen Klinsmann.[7]

The semi-finals of the 2012–13 competition saw Arjen Robben and Thomas Müller inspire Bayern to a 7–0 aggregate victory, to become the biggest win of the semi-finals on aggregate,[8] including a 3–0 win at the Camp Nou[9][10] which was their last home defeat in European competition until a 3–0 loss on 8 December 2020 to Juventus.

The semi-finals of the 2014–15 competition saw Lionel Messi and Neymar as the key players in a 5–3 aggregate win over Bayern, a 3–0 win in Camp Nou and then a 3–2 defeat at the Allianz Arena.[11][12] Bayern's manager at the time was Pep Guardiola, who had previously managed Barca from 2008 to 2012, including the 2008–09 Champions League quarter-final against Bayern.

Road to the quarter-final meeting

Both teams qualified for the knockout phase as winners of their respective groups.[note 2] Barcelona had faced Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan and Slavia Prague, while Bayern, who faced Tottenham Hotspur, Olympiacos and Red Star Belgrade won all six of their group matches, including an emphatic 7–2 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium,[15] scoring 24 goals and conceding just five. Barcelona faced Napoli in the round of 16 and won 4–2 on aggregate, while Bayern Munich beat Chelsea 7–1 on aggregate, with the second leg matches of both teams played behind closed doors due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.[16]

Match

Summary
Thomas Müller won the Man of the Match award.

The match was played on 14 August 2020 at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, as part of a single-elimination tournament, following UEFA's decision to complete the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League and 2019–20 UEFA Europa League seasons, which had been halted since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at neutral venues.[17][18] In the opening 10 minutes, Thomas Müller fired Bayern Munich ahead following a one-two with Robert Lewandowski. Shortly after, David Alaba sliced a cross from Jordi Alba into his own net shortly after to level the scores, before Barcelona themselves missed two opportunities. Luis Suárez was denied by Manuel Neuer and Lionel Messi hit the post with a curling cross-shot. The following minutes took the game away from Barcelona, as Ivan Perišić smashed in a deflected shot in the 21st minute for Bayern, fed by a pass from Serge Gnabry, after a passing error from Sergi Roberto. Gnabry himself scored with a shot from a through-ball from Leon Goretzka in the 27th minute, and Müller quickly added the fourth four minutes later from a cross by Joshua Kimmich.

In the 57th minute, a neat turn and finish from the centre of the box to the bottom-right corner by Suárez gave the Spanish side a glimmer of hope, but that proved premature, as Kimmich's side-footed finish in the 63rd minute, connecting with a delivery from Alphonso Davies – who had beaten his marker, Nelson Semedo, at the edge of the box – made the scoreline 5–2 to the Germans. Bayern scored three goals in the closing 10 minutes of the match as in-form striker Lewandowski, who had been quiet for most of the game, headed his 14th goal of the campaign from a close-range cross by Philippe Coutinho in the 82nd minute. Coutinho, who was on loan to Bayern from Barcelona, scored the last two goals of the game, a right-footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom-left corner from a pass by Müller in the 85th minute, followed by a left-footed shot from very close range to the bottom-left corner from a headed pass by substitute Lucas Hernandez in the 89th minute.[19][20][21]

Details
Barcelona 2–8 Bayern Munich
 Report
Attendance: 0[3][note 1]
Barcelona[2]
Bayern Munich[2]
GK1 Marc-André ter Stegen
RB2 Nélson Semedo
CB3 Gerard Piqué
CB15 Clément Lenglet
LB18 Jordi Alba 58'
CM20 Sergi Roberto 46'
CM5 Sergio Busquets 70'
CM21 Frenkie de Jong
AM22 Arturo Vidal 90+2'
CF10 Lionel Messi (c)
CF9 Luis Suárez 54'
Substitutes:
GK13 Neto
GK26 Iñaki Peña
DF24 Junior Firpo
DF33 Ronald Araújo
DF44 Óscar Mingueza
MF4 Ivan Rakitić
MF28 Riqui Puig
MF42 Monchu
MF46 Ludovit Reis
FW11 Ousmane Dembélé
FW17 Antoine Griezmann 46'
FW31 Ansu Fati 70'
Manager:
Quique Setién
GK1 Manuel Neuer (c)
RB32 Joshua Kimmich 85'
CB17 Jérôme Boateng 43' 76'
CB27 David Alaba
LB19 Alphonso Davies 52' 83'
CM18 Leon Goretzka 83'
CM6 Thiago
RW22 Serge Gnabry 76'
AM25 Thomas Müller
LW14 Ivan Perišić 67'
CF9 Robert Lewandowski
Substitutes:
GK26 Sven Ulreich
GK39 Ron-Thorben Hoffmann
DF2 Álvaro Odriozola
DF4 Niklas Süle 76'
DF21 Lucas Hernandez 83'
MF8 Javi Martínez
MF10 Philippe Coutinho 76'
MF11 Michaël Cuisance
MF24 Corentin Tolisso 83'
MF42 Jamal Musiala
FW29 Kingsley Coman 67'
FW35 Joshua Zirkzee
Manager:[note 3]
Hans-Dieter Flick

Man of the Match:
Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich)[1]

Assistant referees:[2]
Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)
Robert Vukan (Slovenia)
Fourth official:[2]
Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)
Video assistant referee:[2]
Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)
Assistant video assistant referee:[2]
Marco Guida (Italy)

Match rules[24]

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Twelve named substitutes
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time[note 4]

Statistics

Aftermath

Barcelona suffered their heaviest loss in 69 years, this was the first time they had conceded more than five goals in a UEFA Champions League game, and their worst concession since the 8–0 defeat to Sevilla in 1946.[21] Bayern Munich, on the other hand, continued their run of winning all UEFA Champions League matches they played in the season and eventually won the tournament.[26] The eight goals Bayern Munich scored is the most a side has scored in a European Cup knockout match since Real Madrid defeated FC Swarovski Tirol 9–1 in a last 16 tie in 1991.

Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski became the first player to score in eight or more consecutive UEFA Champions League matches since Cristiano Ronaldo in April 2018 (11 games), while Bayern's coach Hans-Dieter Flick became only the third manager in Champions League history to win his first six matches in charge, after Fabio Capello in 1992–93 and Luis Fernández in 1994–95.[27] The match was also compared to the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final match between Brazil and Germany as Thomas Müller opened the scoring in the 7–1 routing of Brazil, which Jérôme Boateng and Manuel Neuer also played in. Flick was also the assistant coach of Germany in the same match.[28]

Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué stated that the club needed structural changes on all levels,[29] while club president Josep Maria Bartomeu described it as a "disaster".[30] Three days after the game, Barcelona sacked manager Quique Setién.[31] He was followed the next day by the club's director of football, Eric Abidal.[32] Setién was replaced on 19 August by Ronald Koeman, who had played for the club from 1989 to 1995 and was their assistant manager under Louis van Gaal from 1998 to 2000.[33] Partly owing to this heavy defeat, Barcelona captain Lionel Messi officially expressed his desire to leave the club,[34][35] in which he explained his decision by failing to compete for the Champions League title after two previous capitulations in the competition (0–3 against Roma in 2017–18 quarter-finals, and 0–4 against Liverpool in 2018–19 semi-finals), by saying: "I looked further afield and I want to compete at the highest level, win titles, compete in the Champions League. You can win or lose in it, because it is very difficult, but you have to compete. At least compete for it and let us not fall apart in Rome, Liverpool, Lisbon. All that led me to think about that decision that I wanted to carry out."[36]

Bayern Munich managed to win their sixth title in the competition and their second continental treble, following a 1–0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in the final.[37]

See also

Notes
  1. The remainder of the competition, held in August 2020, was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[22]
  2. Both teams had also changed their coaches during the season, Bayern replaced Niko Kovač with Hans-Dieter Flick in November 2019,[13] while Barcelona replaced Ernesto Valverde with Quique Setién in January 2020.[14]
  3. Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidžić was shown a yellow card in the 61st minute.[23]
  4. Each team was only given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

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